Marconi in East Kent

On October 29, 1831, English physicist Michael Faraday discovered the curious
phenomenon that electricity could be transmitted despite the absence of
electric wires.
This was almost 50 years before Edison patented the electric light bulb in
1879.
In 1864 Scottish mathematical physicist James Clerk Maxwell proposed a
comprehensive theory of electromagnetism, which predicted that coupled
electric and magnetic fields could travel through space as an electromagnetic
wave
In 1879 German phycisist Heinrich Hertz successfully proved Maxwell's theory
with a series of experiments which produced and received what are now
called radio in the Very High Frequency range.
William Preece consulting engineer for the General Post Office, later Engineerin-Chief
of the GPO in 1892 carried out a series of experiments in the Lake
District during which he succeeded in transmitting and receiving Morse radio
signals over a distance of about 1mile (1.6km) across Coniston Water the fifth
largest lake in the District by area.
Born in Caernarfon, Wales, in February 1834, William Preece was educated at
Kings College School, a public school in Wimbledon, South West London and
later at Kings College London, one of the two founding colleges of the
University of London, before going on to study at the Royal Institution in
London under Michael Faraday himself.
It was in 1896 however that Preece was introduced to a young Italian, newly
arrived in London together with his Mother, Anna ‘Annie ‘Jameson, Guglielmo
Marconi.
The Granddaughter of John Jameson, founder of the renowned Irish Whiskey
Distillers bearing his name, Annie Fenwick Jameson was born “about 1840” in
County Wexford, Ireland, the daughter of Andrew Jameson and Margaret
[Miller].
Whilst attending classes at the Conservatoire in Bologna where she was
staying with family friends and business associates of the Jameson’s Anna
formed a relationship with Giuseppe Marconi an Italian aristocrat banker and
landowner some 15 years her elder.